Leapfrog: alternatives and connections

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over t…

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicio…

To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hi…

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.…

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a…

A placing over against; opposite position.

(with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hand…

Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he sh…

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifl…

To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.

To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over…